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artwork by David McClyment

Lots of Posters.

The college where I taught for 15 years would regularly have events to build student bonding. As a guy to who liked to draw, I would regularly offer my services to design promotional posters for these events. Since nobody seemed to complain this gave me a chance to indulge some my darker cartoon fantasies.

I regularly prepared posters for three events: 1. The annual corn roast in the fall. 2. The annual pancake fest in January. And my favourite: the regular open drawing studio. These are just a few.

Corn Roast

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Tentacles always add that certain something

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original concept for one of the first corn events. Alas, the poster is lost to the sands of time

A riff on the keep on truckin' and sunkist raisin imagery of misspent youth

This one got a little too phallic (as does happen when considering corn cobs). So, I didn't use it.

I like to think that I was also famous for my mulled apple cider. A transformative magic elixir that was always a hit.

Who could resist pyschedelic corn?

Pancakes

The classic stack of pancakes complete with syrup and melting butter

More stacks. This time with those two words irresistible to almost all students: FREE FOOD!

I helped make the pancakes too. I was notorious for flipping them higher than anyone else. Of course, I ate all those that landed on the floor

You draw "pancakes" enough you look for increasingly bizarre ways of presenting them

A student's head as a pancake grill.

What I hope was a universal depiction of faculty mixing the batter.

More flipping. This time I was getting into the elegant shapes that a flipping pancake might take.

What else is there to say.

Open Drawing Studio

An early effort. Don't worry they get more intense.

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something about using drawing to "break out of your cage!"

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